Director of National Development
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JobgetherPublic policy
The position can be based anywhere in the United StatesFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Experience
- Substantial progressive fundraising experience
- Required Skills
- Project Management
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher.
- Substantial progressive fundraising experience, including senior-level responsibility for major gift strategy.
- Demonstrated record of personally securing significant philanthropic contributions.
- Proven success identifying new donors and developing and maintaining major donor relationships.
- Ability to develop strategic fundraising plans and manage the donor relationship cycle from cultivation through solicitation and stewardship.
- Familiarity with national philanthropic networks and donors interested in free-market public policy.
- Experience fundraising for policy organizations or related causes is strongly preferred.
- Excellent writing, presentation, listening, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to explain complex policy and litigation priorities.
- Strong project management, organizational, and follow-through skills, with sound judgment and attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate with colleagues and leadership across different locations.
- Willingness and ability to travel regularly throughout the United States, with convenient access to air travel.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a national fundraising strategy aligned with organizational priorities, revenue targets, and plans for sustainable philanthropic growth.
- Manage and expand a portfolio of existing and prospective major donors, leading cultivation, gift solicitation, and stewardship.
- Identify, research, and engage donors and foundations across the United States whose interests align with national policy initiatives.
- Collaborate with initiative leaders and donor communications colleagues to create proposals, presentations, and funding opportunities.
- Partner with executive leadership and the development team on donor engagement strategies and preparation for donor meetings and major gift solicitations.
- Lead donor cultivation through personal visits, briefings, events, and other engagement opportunities.
- Provide timely, personalized stewardship and substantive updates to donors.
- Monitor fundraising targets and report results, prospective gifts, pipeline development, and growth opportunities to senior leadership.
- Maintain accurate donor records in the donor database and coordinate fundraising activity across the development team.
- Travel throughout the United States to meet donors, support cultivation, and participate in organizational events.
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